Martha

llerks

From one tech to another..my thanks, & gratitude, & donation on the way….worth every penny… saved me a ton of time & headaches….now if I can just figgure out how to split the bottom case on the d620 ??? Bet you have a “how to” on that as well….thanks again Tekkie !!

charlene

I cannot reinstall WinXp – Mini 10 wants me to “insert disk in Drive A” – which does not exist. What can I do to trick the net book in letting me install Win Xp? Frustrating because it loads on the external CD/DVD rom but wont take further action until this DRIVE A is used. PLease help!!! Thanks.

I cannot reinstall WinXp – Mini 10 wants me to “insert disk in Drive A” – which does not exist. What can I do to trick the net book in letting me install Win Xp? Frustrating because it loads on the external CD/DVD rom but wont take further action until this DRIVE A is used.

If I understand correctly, you are trying to boot from an external CD/DVD drive but it’s asking for Drive A?
Can you enter the BIOS setup menu and load default settings. Try again after that.
Can you see the hard drive in the BIOS?

sours

Joseph

Thanks so much for this helpful guide! Saved me lots of $$$ for the holidays. I’ve had to replace the hard drive in a dell mini 10 netbook with no cd rom drive available, how can I get this loaded with an OS?

Thanks so much for this helpful guide! Saved me lots of $$$ for the holidays. I’ve had to replace the hard drive in a dell mini 10 netbook with no cd rom drive available, how can I get this loaded with an OS?

Max

What a great guide, thanks. I believe my hard drive is, for lack of a better word, f**ed. I quite experienced with the operation of computers and such, but am lacking in experience with hard drives. How would i know for sure that the hard drive is “f**ed”?

Does your laptop still boot?
If it boots, you can test hard drive with HDTune utility. Run error scan.
If the laptop doesn’t boot, you can remove the hard drive and test it on a working PC. I usually test hard drive with SeaTools utility (frim Seagate.

Nathan

the soldering for where the power switch is connected to the mother board broke apart. I re-soldered it, but the two pins ended up being soldered together in one large solder as opposed to the two small ones previously. My computer won’t turn on. Do the pins need to be soldered separately?

Thanks!

Ravi

how can you test the dc power jack on a dell mini, we used a after market plug and it arked at the plug in wall socket, now the computer will not boot, just a black screen. the power light is on but nothing comes up. i was told it may have fried my mother board. what do you think

Tony

Please could you tell me how to install windows on a dell mini.
My old one dont work properly so was adviced to buy a new one, but it happens to be blank. How do i go about it, l will make a donation please. Thanks

Jaime Obed

Hello!
My question was whether the Dell Mini Laptop or has no hard drive.
I wanted to see if by chance something is badly connected and up to test out the disc because it is giving error message: Operating System not found.

riyajain

my dell mini battery shorted and damaged two adapters while trying to charge as adapter light continuously blink and finally off permanently during battery charging but lapy fine works directly on adapter without battery, pls help any solution for battery shortage problem?

my dell mini battery shorted and damaged two adapters while trying to charge as adapter light continuously blink and finally off permanently during battery charging but lapy fine works directly on adapter without battery, pls help any solution for battery shortage problem?

Jiatek solutions

with the first option, all you do is take your normal installation disk and put this into the external drive and go into your BIOS settings and boot from the external drive first.

The second option is a little more time consuming to setup. It involves copying your installation disk as a bootable ISO format and then using PowerISO, you can convert the disk files onto your pen drive, the software will also allow you to make the USB device bootable.

In either case, going onto google will be the best way to get the relevant knowledge and also the software tha you will need.

I hope this information helps you and do let e know on here how you get on.